CLK wrote:

Time to hear your thoughts, or memories.  The last time we beat Pitt was the Aaron Lovelace team whichever year it was (I am sure our DU historian Duq81 knows).  This is a rivalry game, and I am sure Coach Ferry will let the new guys know the history and has them fired up and ready to play.  It will be interesting to see if after 8 days of practice if the defense improves.  Let's Go Dukes!

Maybe GA will get his first W against the Panthers what is his record 0-7 or 0-8? A win could get the Dukes much needed national attention.

Last time we beat Pitt was the Wayne Smith team. This was the year that Pitt went on the late run, and made it to the BE Championship Game. Ricardo Greer was their star. This was the year before they emerged as a legit power, so I'm thinking Dec of 2000. I remember Hillgrove and Groat being very complimentary of Smith during their postgame show.

My all-time favorite game will always be the NIT game at the Civic Arena in March 1980. Place was absolutely rocking. I had long-before acquired my hate (in the rivalry sense, please don't anyone think I'm some kind of headcase) for the Panthers because I thought Grgurich was a tool, Eddie Scheuremann was the worst-looking 7-footer I'd ever seen, and Sam Clancy was the perfect bad guy in the rivalry because he was so talented. 

I actually saw that Eastern 8 championship game on TV at a local bar. For some reason, the channel that normally carried Knicks games (but never a college game) picked it up that year, maybe because they thought Rutgers would have a shot. I was making noise for the Dukes and no one else seemd to care that the TV was on. That loss was a bummer. We went back to the NIT and played Michigan and got whupped. 

Call me a troll if you want but even in the Everhart years I gave up even caring about this game.  Pitt is usually light years ahead of us. They toy with us in the first half and utterly destroy us by double digits every year.  It's not a rivalry if there is no competition.  Us winning a game once every 12 years does not even put us on their radar.

I trace it back to the one game under Ron, where we led the entire game and then blew it in the last 12 seconds, only to lose in overtime.  Since then, I have barely cared about watching it.

There, my great memory of the rivalry.